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(NoModeL) W. COLLINS & G. F. BENNIMAN.

Snap Hook.

No. 235,072. Patented Dec. 7,1880."

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UNrrEo STATES PATENT Fries.

WARREN COLLINS AND CHARLES F. PENNIMAN, OF JANESVlLLE, WIS.

SNAP-HOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming" part of Letters Patent No. 235,072, dated.December'Y, 1880.

Application filed September 3,1880.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, WARREN COLLINS and CHARLES F. PENNIMAN, ofJanesville, in the county of Rock and State of Wisconsin, have inventeda new and useful Improvement in Snap-Hooks for Harnesses, whichimprovement is fully set forth in the following specification andaccompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of thehook in a position for use; Fig. 2, a view of the same with the braketurned and the guard open; Fig. 3, of a rear plan view of the same.

Our invention relates to snap-hooks to be used upon a harness for thepurpose of securing a strap or rein to an iron ring.

It consists of a hook, A, of any convenient size or shape, at the rearend of which is a slot used for the attachment of the strap or rein,which is sewed or buckled onto the same. The inside of the hook isprovided with a web or guard, B, so placed as to form a detent, G,leaving a channel for the ring, at the same time preventing the ringfrom slipping back and also from rattling. The guard B is used, also,for the purposes of fastening to it a swinging loop, on one end of whichis a spur, E, pivoted to the web or guard, and its point meeting, ornearly so, the point of the hook A, thereby closing the passage of thering after it has been passed into the hook and when in place providedfor it between the top of hook A and the guard or web B. The loop on theother end is made the same width of the loop on the rear of hook A andrests upon it, extending rearward and curved down over the rear of saidhook, the harness-strap passing through said loop and attached to thehook, so that by turning the rein in an opposite direction from the hookit throws the spur back and opens the throat of the hook so that thering will pass in and out freely.

The object of placing the loop as above described is to keep the spur Efrom swinging and releasing the ring.

The strap keeps the loop in its place, which controls the guard.

(No model.)

The handle may swing on the hinge without the loop with the guardattached.

In releasing the ring a brake is made (see Fig. 2 of the drawings) andthe strain of the strap removed, so that the swinging of the loopreleases the ring from guard B.

The end of loop D may be provided with a roller to roll upon the strap.

We do not claim anything on the principle of a movable guard to hold aring into a book, as we are aware that such a device has been patented;but we wish to secure the swinging or movable guard, which we use infour different ways, and do not confine ourselves to any particular way.

In the patent of June 8, 1880, snap-hooks, a removable guard is hingedto the point of the book, but it has no provision for keeping it in itsplace when the hook falls upon its back.

Our guard is controlled by the swinging loop D and the strap or rein,which work conjointly with each other.

What we do claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is r 1. Inasnap-hook for harnesses, the combination of hook A, provided with guardB, with the swinging loop D, having spur E, integral therewith, pivotedto said hook, the rear end of said loop extending back and dropping downover the rear end of said hook A, so as to permit the harness-strap topass loosely through the same, substantially as described.

2. In asnap-hook for harnesses, the combination of the swinging loop Dwith hook A, resting on top of and pivoted to the same and of equalwidth with the bow of said hook, its rear end turned over and partiallyencircling the same, substantially as described and claimed, and for thepurposes set forth.

\VARREN COLLIN S. CHARLES F. PENNIMAN.

Witnesses M. M. PHELPS, WM. SMITH.

